Re: U of Waterloo ftp site not up to date and other issues

[Graham Percival]

On 16-Aug-05, at 12:19 PM, Peter Teeson wrote:

> It appears that the fink packages are way out of date.
> Even the unstable devel version is only at 2.5.23
> So just what's the point of doing things the fink way if it is so far 
> behind?

There's more up-to-date packages in fink 0.8 (which is only for 10.4, 
unfortunately).
I asked the maintainer to backport it to 0.73 (which is 10.3) since it 
works just
fine, but I guess it's not done yet.

> I also went to the ftp site indicated on the lilypond website namely
> ftp://sca.uwaterloo.ca/pub/
> Guess what? The current lilypond directory is Nov 2003 and it has 
> nothing in it.

Thanks, this has been fixed.

> I've got the unpacked source 2.6.3 tarball (and whatever dependancies 
> I needed) dl'd in my own special directories.

Ok.  Look in the fink webcvs to find lilypond.info and lilypond.patch 
from the 10.4-transitional
branch.  Then search the lilypond-devel mailist for an email I wrote in 
the early part
of this year that explains how to compile from scratch on OSX.

Cheers,
- Graham